Open AccessBook Review: Putting Assessment into Action: Selected Projects from the First Cohort of the Assessment in Action Grant
Author(s) -
Larry Cooperman
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.56n1.54
Subject(s) - action (physics) , task (project management) , information literacy , academic library , medical education , literacy , library science , linkage (software) , political science , psychology , computer science , management , medicine , pedagogy , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , gene
Creating, implementing, and managing academic library programs can be a daunting task in itself, but how do academic librarians successfully assess the outcomes of multifaceted, long-term programs? In 2013 and 2014, ACRL began an Assessment in Action (AiA) grant program to monitor the results and outcomes of twenty-seven American and Canadian academic library programs, including programs on information literacy, student collaboration, management of technology facilities, space optimization, and linkage of student retention with research assistance.